According to Dawn, Islamabad has 30,000 manholes, of which 1,657 are bare. In 2025, uncovered sewers led to the death of 24 people in Karachi, five of them children.
Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz Sharif said that timely precautions had averted large-scale flood damage, adding that it was by the grace of Allah Almighty that Punjab was spared from severe losses.
According to a report by Pakistani journalist Benazir Shah, the Punjab government has used the colonial-era Land Acquisition Act to seize land from farmers.
Visiting a girls' school in Pakistan Punjab, CM Maryam Nawaz Sharif flipped through a student's textbook and read 'Geography' on the cover page. It was a blunder, considering the attack from her critics.
Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s team shared a video of her fixing a woman’s scarf in hopes of portraying the newly elected CM as a compassionate leader, but it has become a polarising topic.
Maryam secured 220 votes in the 371-seat provincial assembly and is the first woman to be CM of Punjab. The election results was boycotted by the opposition Sunni Ittehad Council party.
Leader of Opposition and PML (N) leader Shehbaz Sharif said the story peels off a thick layer of a grand scheme employed to target Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz.
Army chief orders probe after Sindh police’s top officers applied for mass leave saying IG Mushtaq Mahar was ‘abducted’ to sign arrest warrant for Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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